Exam 4: Fundamentals of Organizing

The form of departmentalization that groups together common functions into departments such as marketing, production, or finance, is: ____ departmentalization.

Over the years, companies have tended to:

Functional authority violates the unity-of-command principle.

Reengineering:

In describing a wagon wheel organizational structure, who is at its hub, who is on its spokes, and who is on its rim?

All of the following are benefits of downsizing EXCEPT:

What are the three types of variables identified in Likert's internal systems model? How are they related?

The authority of ideas is associated with advisory authority.

The functional approach to departmentalization creates efficiency through the principles of specialization.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the product approach to departmentalization?

The matrix organization permits an organization to respond more quickly to change than the functional approach does.

Why should the use of functional authority be limited?

The unity of command principle states that line employees should not interact with staff employees.

When an organization puts managers in charge of the three basic activities:

Both delegation and decentralization are concerned with the giving of authority to someone at a higher level of management.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using the unity of command principle?

What are the three types of authority? Give an example of each.

The right of staff personnel to advise, recommend, serve, and assist line departments is called line authority.

Give a brief definition of reengineering.

Geographically dispersed organizations tend to be centralized.